Cardiovascular system
Across
- 2. attack happens when the flow of blood that brings oxygen to a part of your heart muscle.
- 4. a combining form that mean “heart”
- 6. test evaluates how the heart responds to physical exertion.
- 10. record the electrical activity of the heart.
- 12. angiography an invasive procedure where a catheter is inserted into an artery.
- 14. A disease that occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked.
- 15. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- 17. Coronary artery bypass graft
- 18. x-ray provides a general picture of the heart’s size.
- 19. Congestive heart failure
- 22. an abnormal heart rhythm.
- 24. Electrogram
Down
- 1. uses ultrasound waves to create a moving picture of the heart.
- 3. means “aorta’
- 5. heart disease disease of the blood vessels that supply the heart muscle.
- 7. means pertaining to
- 8. the fluid that circulates through the cardiovascular system.
- 9. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 11. Coronary artery disease
- 12. tiny blood vessels where gas and nutrient exchange.
- 13. Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart.
- 16. means “of the heart”
- 20. failure occurs when the heart doesn’t pump blood.
- 21. a word root that means “little vessel”
- 23. the muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body.